Sunday News Round-Up – 40 Years of Roe Edition

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. That means that Blog for Choice Day 2013 is coming up on Tuesday, this year with the theme of having writers share their own personal stories of why they’re pro-choice.

I expect to put a post up in observance, and I also have something on Marsha Blackburn and Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood for tomorrow. Today’s Sunday News Round-Up theme will also be abortion.

The Feminist Anthropologist talks about Planned Parenthood’s plan to move away from using the “choice” terminology, and includes a critique of some unfortunate gendered language in their explanatory video. I will say that I have definitely encountered trans women online talking about Planned Parenthood failing to properly and respectfully treat them, and that is something I would like to see PP explicitly address on the national level, ensuring competency at all affiliate clinics.

In fact, a 2008 report funded by the Guttmacher Institute announced that 87 percent of counties in the United States do not have an abortion provider.That’s a big enough number to put in all caps: EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT! That makes getting an abortion seem less like a “choice” and more like a forced road trip.
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The Hyde Amendment, predictably, reinforces the idea that wealthy women have the “choice,” but poor women don’t. And lest we forget, the poorest women are the ones who lack access to contraceptive information and services anyway, dammit!

I see this post,but fact is that being a mother is the most beautiful thing you can be. Every woman should be AGAINST abortion. A mother always sees the beauty of a human being more than the man.The truth is that there is nothing feminine about feminism. Feminism is masculinized womanhood. Abortion is against womanhood, There are also emotional effects of abortion

There are so many things wrong with that comment, I don’t know where to start. Not every woman want to, or even can be a mother. Holding it out as the best thing a woman should ever do is an insult to women who can’t, shouldn’t, or don’t want to – different people have different values. Then there’s the gender essentialism of claiming men always see things one way and men always see it another way, which is not true and highly influenced by culture. Then there’s the fundamental misunderstanding of feminism. *sigh* A deliberate troll would find it difficult to work in so many untruths and stereotypes into one comment.